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Fuzzy is exactly my point. If one is going to argue that less "creation... detracts from overall greatness," then many of the Best Picture winners since 1959 (the arbitrary year we're talking about) have been based on stories created before the film. Not including the ones I mentioned above, you still have:
1962 - biopic (Lawrence of Arabia)
1963 - novel adaptation (Tom Jones)
1964 - stage musical (My Fair Lady)
1965 - stage musical (The Sound of Music)
1966 - stage play (A Man For All Seasons)
1967 - novel adaptation (In The Heat of the Night)
1969 - novel adaptation (Midnight Cowboy)
1970 - biopic (Patton)
1971 - non-fiction book (fictionalized) (The French Connection)
1972 - novel adaptation (The Godfather)
1973 - non-fiction book (fictionalized) (The Sting)
1975 - novel adaptation (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
etc etc.
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